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HOUSES AND HOUSE-LIFE OF THE AMERICAN ABORIGINES.
with their names in the Seneca dialect, and their arrangement in classes to facilitate the attainment of unanimity in council. In foot-notes will be found the signification of these names, and the gentes to which they belonged.
Table of sachemships of the Iroquois}[1]
| MOHAWKS. | |
| I. | 1. Da-gä-e′-o-gă.1 2. Hä-yo-went′-ha.2 3. Da-gä-no-we′-dä.3 |
| II. | 4. So-ä-e-wä′-ah.4 5. Da-yo′-ho-go.5 6. O-ä-ä'-go-wä.6 |
| III. | 7. Da-an-no-gä′e-neh.7 8. Sä-da′-gä-e-wä-deh.8 9. Häs-dä-weh′-se-ont-hä.9 |
| ONEIDAS. | |
| I. | 1. Ho-däs′-hä-teh.10 2. Ga-no-gweh′-yo-do.11 3. Da-yo-hä′-gwen-da.12 |
| II. | 4. So-no-sase′13. 5. To-no-ä-gă′-o.14 6. Hä-de-ä-dun-nent′-hä.15 |
| III. | 7. Da-wä-dä′-o-dä-yo.16 8. Gä-ne-ä-dus′-ha-yeh.17 9. Ho-wus′-hä da-o.18 |
| ONONDAGAS. | |
| I. | 1. To-do-dä′ ho.19 2. To-nes′-sa-ah. 3. Da-ät′-ga-dose.20 |
| II. | 4. Gä-neä-dä′-je-wake.21 5. Ah-wä′-ga-yat.22 6. Da-ä-yaf-gwä-e. |
| III. | 7. Ho-no-we-nă-to.23 |
| IV. | 8. Gä-wă-nă′-san-do.24 9. Hä-e′-ho.25 10. Ho-yo-ne-ä′-ne.26 11. Sa-dä′-kwä-seh.27 |
| V. | 12. Sä-go-ga-hä′28 13 Ho-sa-hä′-do29 14. Skä-no′-wun-de.30 |
- ↑ 1 These names signify as follows: 1. "Neutral," or "The Shield." 2. "Man who Combs." 3. "Inexhaustible." 4. "Small Speech." 5. "At the Forks." 6. "At the Great Eiver." 7. "Dragging his Horns." 8. "Even Tempered," 9. "Hanging up Rattles." The sachems in class one belonged to the Turtle gens, in class two to the Wolf gens, and in class three to the Bear gens. 10. "A Man bearing a Burden." 11. "A Man covered with Cat-tail Down." 12. "Opening through the Woods." 13. "A Long String." 14. "A Man with a Headache." 15. "Swallowing Him- self." 16. "Place of the Echo." 17. "War-club on the Ground." 18. "A Man Steaming Himself." The sachems in the first class belong to the Wolf gens, in the second to the Turtle gens, and in the third to the Bear gens. 19. "Tangled," Bear gens. 20. "On the Watch," Bear gens. This sachem and the one before him were hereditary councillors of the To-do-dä′-ho, who held the most illustrious sachemship. 21. "Bitter Body," Snipe gens. 22. Turtle gens. 23. This sachem was hereditary keeper of the wampum ; Wolf gens. 24. Deer gens. 25. Deer gens. 26. Turtle gens. 27. Bear gens. 28. "Having a Glimpse," Deer gens. 29. "Large Mouth," Turtle gens. 30. "Over the Creek," Turtle gens.
